Cardiff is pretty new to Records management but we are certainly aware of
the schemes in the esd-toolkit and the APLAWS project (indeed Camden is a
sponsor of the former).
From a Records Management point of view these developments should not
cause a problem and should have long term benefits. The real meat perhaps
lies in the e-GMS (E-government Metadata Standard)from which it will be
seen that there is a 'mandatory' element for the subject.category
refinement for which the Local Government Category list is the appropriate
coding scheme. The e-GMS is intended for use with all information
resources not just web sites and FOI.
The LGCL IS function based (one of its early precursors 'Go With the Flow'
was quite clearly a hierarchical business model based on function) and
that is one of its benefits. We have a penchant in local governement for
permanent re-organisation and restructuring but the functions we carry out
endure.
Although much driven by ITC because of the needs of web sites and
electronic service delivery the LG Category List has a much longer and
wider history over 4-5 years and has been the subject of extensive
development and consultation.
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